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March 1, 2018 49 mins

92 year-old Royal Marine Roy Bennett remembers his WWII Juno beach landing and more:
"There was a horrendous noise as we landed, people were dying leaving the landing craft ..."

Bill Cheall re-visits France and Gold beach on the 50th anniversary of D-Day in 1994.
"We arrived 50 years later at 12.15 hrs and it was still drizzling with rain, and windy, just like it was on D-Day, WW2".

More great unpublished history - of the Second World War.

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48 RM Commando Roy Bennett

Below: WWII veteran Bill Cheall and son at Bayeux at the end of a wonderful holiday

Father and son at Bayeux at the end of a wonderful holiday

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